Archive image from page 32 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1918 43rd year curriesfarmgarde19curr_1 Year: 1918 ( LIST OF TESTED GARDEN SEEDS FOR 1918 27 ONIONS- CONTINUED AILSA CRAIG ONION—Extra Selected Stock. 'Tbe Champion Exhibition Onion of the World.' Where known in this country this Onion takes the lead of all others, commanding a better price than any of the famous Spanish or Bermuda sorts. There is no Onion equal to it for exhibition purposes. It is a handsome globe shape, the outer skin being a beautiful straw color. The seed should be sown
Archive image from page 32 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1918 43rd year curriesfarmgarde19curr_1 Year: 1918 ( LIST OF TESTED GARDEN SEEDS FOR 1918 27 ONIONS- CONTINUED AILSA CRAIG ONION—Extra Selected Stock. 'Tbe Champion Exhibition Onion of the World.' Where known in this country this Onion takes the lead of all others, commanding a better price than any of the famous Spanish or Bermuda sorts. There is no Onion equal to it for exhibition purposes. It is a handsome globe shape, the outer skin being a beautiful straw color. The seed should be sown indoors or in a hot-bed early in spring and transplanted. By this treatment enormous crops can. be raised, a yield of over a thousand bushels to the acre not being uncommon. The Onion grows to a very large size, frequently weighing 2V4 to 3 lbs. each. It is re- markably mild in flavor. Pkt. 10c; oz. 35c; 1 oz. 60c; 2 oz. $; Yi lb. $; Vz lb. $; 1 lb. $ Yellow Strasburg, or Dutch—A good keeper, bulb flat and of fair size, skin darker yellow than Danvers. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 1 oz. 35c; 2 oz. 60c; lb. $; lb. $; 1 lb. $; 5 lbs. $ Large Red Wethersfield—One of the best market and shipping sorts. It grows to a large size, color or skin dark red, flesh slightly tinged purple, stronger-flavored than the white and yellow varieties. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 1 oz. 35c; 2 oz. 60c; 14 lb. $; V2 lb. $; 1 lb. $; 5 lbs. $ WTiite B-unching Onion (White Lisbon)—An extra early va- riety maturing large snowy white onions of very fine quality, long before other sorts are ready. It is not a good keeper, but for early bunching or using green it is unsurpassed. Pkt. 10c; oz. 35c; 1 oz. 60c; 2 oz. $; lb. $; V2 lb. $; 1 lb. $ White Welsh Onion or Ciboule—A hardy perennial variety grown only as a green bunching onion. It does not form the usual bulb, but merely an elongated enlargment of the stem. The leaves frequently are use
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